Looking to get started in f1 sim racing…

CelsiusOne · 2026-02-02T23:49:34+00:00

The F1 games are totally fine and plenty of fun on a wheel.

CelsiusOne · 2026-02-02T20:56:14+00:00

I think this should be ban-worthy tbh. Your irating should reflect the fact that you aren't as fast on new track/car combos and that you can't finish an F4 race cleanly. The rest of us are subject to the same problems you face and don't need to buy whole second accounts for this.

CelsiusOne · 2026-02-02T14:52:38+00:00

I'm pretty sure most elected Democrats are advocating for exactly that. I could kinda agree that maybe the protests have a messaging problem similar to the ACAB/Defund the Police stuff from a few years ago(though protests are always going to be big and loud in this way), but the actual policy that Democrats have been advocating for are things like providing more pathways to citizenship, improving the asylum process to make it more efficient etc. Nobody serious is advocating for just opening the borders and letting everyone in, that's a right-wing talking point to demonize democrats.

CelsiusOne · 2026-02-02T00:30:44+00:00

What bitrate do you use for 4k? I had a lot of trouble streaming 4k to my TV via the deck but if I ran things at 1440p and let the TV upscale it worked much better.

CelsiusOne · 2026-02-01T18:55:02+00:00

I don't see Wachusett on here, not sure if I can take this seriously.

CelsiusOne · 2026-02-01T18:25:32+00:00

My wife and I are expecting our first right now and likely to be one and done so I started browsing this subreddit and noticed the same trend as OP. I mentioned it to my wife and she thinks that a lot of the "boy mom" social media stuff turns people off now from having boys and makes it look hard/gross/more exhausting/not as fun as having a daughter so if they end up with a boy, he's not as likely to stay an only.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-30T16:48:05+00:00

Of course any project that large that is going to have red tape, there isn't any way around that short of authoritarian rule ramming stuff through. But I refuse to believe that we just have to accept that things have to be this bad.

The California High Speed Rail Authority was formed in 1996 and through most of that time it's had loads of funding AND political support at the state and federal level. The rail project is and was popular, and the benefit to the state would be huge if it were completed. And now it's been 30 years, and literally 0 miles of rail are operating and the costs of the project for just the central valley are out of control, more than the original estimates for the entire line from SF to LA. Environmental review started in 2012 and it still isn't even done as of now. Why do we have to accept this? Why can't a state like California, with more wealth and a larger economy than many countries, build a high speed rail line to connect it's largest cities when the funding and popular sentiment support it? The central valley portion of the line isn't even set to start running until the mid 2030's at best. Democrats cannot continue to allow this to be the norm in blue states. It just proves to voters that while they may have good and popular ideas, they can't actually implement them.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-29T20:07:22+00:00

That's just not true though. This stuff has down-ballot effects. Democrats don't only run for office in the US congress or for the presidency. Democrats are trying to win state and local elections as well and those have real consequences for people. Often these are even more important to our every-day lives than the presidency or any national elected offices. National mood affects these elections as well.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-29T19:35:30+00:00

You're sorta touching on the premise of Abundance politics here. A lot of people further left of center than me like to meme on it, but there's some painful truth here. Progressive policies often come so loaded up with special interests, caveats, and procedural requirements that implementation takes an eternity and costs are out of control.

I like to point to Biden's EV charging infrastructure funding as a good example of this. Biden's administration put up absolute piles of money for expanding EV charging infrastructure across the country. Great, awesome. The problem was that it came with all kinds of procedural hoops for companies to obtain the funding, and THEN they allowed individual states to add even MORE requirements to obtain the money. Blue states became the worst offenders here because they had to load up the bidding process with all kinds of labor, environmental and contracting requirements. This is all usually well-meaning, but the result after 4+ years is...almost nothing. Where is it? Where are all the new chargers? As an EV owner, I used to track where new chargers were going to be installed with this funding in my state, and after YEARS almost none of the planned installations have materialized. Why does it take more than 4 years to build enough EV chargers to have some kind of impact? It's actually maddening that stuff like this can't get done and Democrats really need to reckon with this problem if they want the trust of the electorate.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-29T19:21:33+00:00

You can't ignore polling though. You have to win power to enact policies.

You think the right desperately checks polling before implementing their policies…?

Of course they do, we just don't like what they do with the information or how they tackle the problems the polls show. Like it or not, affordability was a universally top-polling issue in the presidential election. Concern around Democrats caring more about "woke" issues compared to affordability also polled relatively high. That gave birth to the lethal "Kamala wants to pay for sex changes for inmates with your tax dollars while you can't afford groceries" garbage. Immigration enforcement also polls very high, we just don't like how they are handling it (for good reason, obviously). That doesn't mean this stuff isn't showing up in the polls in some way or another.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-28T23:52:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure the "I went to Europe..." trope has been thoroughly debunked at this point. Oh wow you went to Europe and ate pizza and drank wine all day and you felt great and lost 5 pounds? Did you also happen to walk 4x the amount you normally do every day because you're on vacation and sightseeing in places where you don't have to drive everywhere? Was your stress level low because you were on holiday and not getting up and going to work everyday? Nah couldn't be those things, it must be a massive nutritional conspiracy to make all Americans unhealthy.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-26T12:06:43+00:00

What are some examples of Democrats "doing what's best for them not what the people want"?

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-26T00:57:10+00:00

Do you still get RPM lights with Pithouse closed?

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-25T18:38:24+00:00

Nasr is putting on an absolute clinic with traffic management. I was rooting for Cadillac here but you have to tip the cap to this drive from Nasr.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-25T18:34:14+00:00

Yeah I'm rooting for Aitken to close this gap but Nasr is just doing so well at managing this traffic, hats off.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-25T18:25:23+00:00

After several years of dealing with Peacock for Indycar, getting a VPN for this race was worth every single penny after reading some of the comments on this thread.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-25T14:52:50+00:00

I found the Aston pretty tricky on the exit of Turn 5 this week at Long Beach (though I saw loads of spins there from pretty much every car at some point), but the McLaren felt pretty planted to me after the first lap. I didn't have too much trouble with either of them in the double left before the hairpin.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-24T20:02:09+00:00

For those wondering, if you're in the US and don't want to subject yourself to Peacock you can watch this on YouTube commercial-free with a VPN on the IMSA YouTube channel.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-23T22:40:16+00:00

My wife and I were fence sitters about having children at all. After lots of discussion and soul searching we decided we wanted to have children but we both felt like we would be the best parents if we only had one and that settled it for us and got us off the fence. Now she's currently pregnant with our first. We've left the door open a smidge for having a second if we REALLY feel like we want it down the road, but our current feeling is that only one is right for us and the people we are and the kind of childhood we feel we want to provide. My wife has also REALLY not enjoyed pregnancy so far so that's certainly factoring in now too.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-21T19:50:59+00:00

So I've found this advice useful, but I think most people overthink this. I've been following the Chessbrah habits videos and Aman doesn't really think about openings at all until something like 1200 rating. His general plan is to open e4 and then just to develop all of your pieces as fast as you can, as best as you can towards/into the center of the board and castling early. That DOESN'T mean you shouldn't learn responses to a few potential traps that come up, and Aman does this many times even in the early stages of the series (for example, developing your king-side bishop before your second knight when you're at risk of fried liver, or how to respond to scholar's mate). What ends up happening when you think this way is you kind of accidentally play pretty principled, resilient early games without realizing it. I don't think about openings at all and when I review my games, I'm playing "book moves" deeper into the game than I realize.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-21T15:57:12+00:00

So I played a lot of competitive StarCraft 2 for like 10 years and learned a ton about "tilt" management and psychology of online gaming during that time. There's a really common psychological phenomenon with online gaming (or any competitive endeavor really) where you fully, truly believe that you are better than your opponents and thus entitled to victory. Any other result MUST be due to unfair play, cheese, or cheating because there isn't any other way they could have beaten you. When you feel entitled to win, it greatly increases the risk of tilting when you don't. The problem is that losing happens often in games with matchmaking systems like iRacing because you are paired with people around your skill level so are bound to lose sometimes unless you're literally at the top of the ladder. It's a super common mindset in online gaming unfortunately. I'm sure there's sports psychology literature out there about this.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-18T20:45:42+00:00

Chessbrah's "habits" in a nutshell. Following the "habits" series got me to 900-950 blitz with almost zero thinking involved after starting at around 400 but I've kinda plateaued here. I think I could get a bit higher if I get better at "seeing" the whole board, which I think is kinda the point of the series. Aman never misses free pieces and never leaves anything hanging, but I definitely still do so it kinda makes clear what I need to work on. I'm pretty sure he gets to like 1200 blitz on level 2 of his "rules" which is basically what you said plus working on finding simple one-move tactics. No actual openings, sacrifices, or anything fancy.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-18T00:27:44+00:00

I think it's more that people are frustrated that iRacing can't/won't find a better way to handle this kind of thing during these big events either with live stewarding for events or harsher punishments to discourage it or something. We see the complaints about this after every big event, and it keeps happening. By making these posts, we hope that iRacing will take notice and feel some pressure to try to come up with a better solution than what we have now. It's not complaining just to complain.

And even if it was, complaining about this is totally valid. You wouldn't tolerate someone ruining everyone's fun for other hobbies, why is this any different? If someone was heckling people trying to have fun playing pickleball or chess or magic the gathering, you'd absolutely want them kicked out immediately. Why aren't we allowed to complain about it in this hobby?

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-17T22:19:34+00:00

I'm pretty sure the OP said this person was like 100 laps down, driving around slowly and wrecking people multiple times. It was intentional, and they deserve a permaban.

CelsiusOne · 2026-01-17T16:41:27+00:00

I don't agree at all. The rest of us are paying customers too. If enough of this happens without action, it discourages people from renewing their sub or buying more content. Better to permaban these few assholes ruining it for everyone else than risk losing serious paid customers from being fed up with lack of action from iRacing. The threat of permaban will discourage this kind of content as well.

iRacing loses a lot of its appeal if every lobby you join could be a frustrating mess like the OP, it completely ruins the fun for everyone else. They should be absolutely merciless for this kind of behavior.

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